Forty years after the Swedish parliament unanimously decided to change the formerly homogenous Sweden into a multicultural country, violent crime has increased by 300% and rapes by 1,472%. Sweden is now number two on the list of rape countries, surpassed only by Lesotho in Southern Africa.

Significantly, the report does not touch on the background of the rapists. One should, however, keep in mind that in statistics, second-generation immigrants are counted as Swedes.

In an astounding number of cases, the Swedish courts have demonstrated sympathy for the rapists, and have acquitted suspects who have claimed that the girl wanted to have sex with six, seven or eight men.

The internet radio station Granskning Sverige called the mainstream newspapers Aftonbladet and Expressen to ask why they had described the perpetrators as "Swedish men" when they actually were Somalis without Swedish citizenship. They were hugely offended when asked if they felt any responsibility to warn Swedish women to stay away from certain men. One journalist asked why that should be their responsibility.

In 1975, the Swedish parliament unanimously decided to change the former homogeneous Sweden into a multicultural country. Forty years later the dramatic consequences of this experiment emerge: violent crime has increased by 300%.

If one looks at the number of rapes, however, the increase is even worse. In 1975, 421 rapes were reported to the police; in 2014, it was 6,620. That is an increase of 1,472%.

Sweden is now number two on the global list of rape countries. According to a survey from 2010, Sweden, with 53.2 rapes per 100,000 inhabitants, is surpassed only by tiny Lesotho in Southern Africa, with 91.6 rapes per 100,000 inhabitants.

Rape rate per 100,000 population, comparison by country (selected top and bottom countries), 2012 statistics taken from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons)

According to figures published by The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brottsförebyggande rådet; known as Brå) -- an agency under the Ministry of Justice -- 29,000 Swedish women, during 2011, reported that they had been raped (which seems to indicate that less than 25% of the rapes are reported to the police).

Strange explanations

Rather than doing something about the problem of violence and rape, Swedish politicians, public authorities and media do their best to explain away the facts. Here are some of their explanations:

Swedes have become more prone to report crime.

The law has been changed so that more sexual offences are now classed as rape.

Swedish men cannot handle increased equality between the sexes and react with violence against women (perhaps the most fanciful excuse).

A long-held feminist myth is that the most dangerous place for a woman is her own home -- that most rapes are committed by someone she knows. This claim was refuted by Brå's report:

"In 58% of cases, the perpetrator was entirely unknown by the victim. In 29% of cases the perpetrator was an acquaintance, and in 13% of cases the perpetrator was a person close to the victim."

Brå reports that there are no major differences between women of Swedish and foreign background when it comes to the risk of being raped. Significantly, the report does not touch on the background of the rapists.

Without parallel

Back in 1975, the year when politicians decided that Sweden was to become multicultural, the Swedish population stood at 8,208,442. By 2014 it had grown to 9,743,087 -- an increase of 18.7%. This growth is entirely due to immigration, as Swedish women on average give birth to 1.92 children compared to the 2.24 average of immigrant women. One should, however, keep in mind that in the statistics, second-generation immigrants are counted as Swedes.

Sweden's recent population growth is without parallel. Never before in the country's history has the number of inhabitants increased so fast. Sweden is now the fastest growing country in Europe.

Over the past 10-15 years, immigrants have mainly come from Muslim countries such as Iraq, Syria and Somalia. Might this mass influx explain Sweden's rape explosion? It is difficult to give a precise answer, because Swedish law forbids registration based on people's ancestry or religion. One possible explanation is that, on average, people from the Middle East have a vastly different view of women and sex than Scandinavians have. And despite the attempts by the Swedish establishment to convince the population that everyone setting foot on Swedish soil becomes exactly like those who have lived here for dozens of generations, facts point in an altogether different direction.

The latest statistical survey of immigrant criminality compared to that of Swedes was done in 2005. The results are practically never mentioned. Not only that; anyone who dares refer to them, for example on social media, is viciously attacked.

Denigration of ethnic groups

Michael Hess, a local politician from Sweden Democrat Party, encouraged Swedish journalists to get acquainted with Islam's view of women, in connection with the many rapes that took place in Cairo's Tahrir Square during the "Arab Spring". Hess wrote, "When will you journalists realize that it is deeply rooted in Islam's culture to rape and brutalize women who refuse to comply with Islamic teachings. There is a strong connection between rapes in Sweden and the number of immigrants from MENA-countries [Middle East and North Africa]."

This remark led to Michael Hess being charged with "denigration of ethnic groups" [hets mot folkgrupp], a crime in Sweden. In May last year, he was handed a suspended jail sentence and a fine -- the suspension was due to the fact that he had no prior convictions. The verdict has been appealed to a higher court.

For many years, Michael Hess lived in Muslim countries, and he is well acquainted with Islam and its view of women. During his trial, he provided evidence of how sharia law deals with rape, and statistics to indicate that Muslims are vastly overrepresented among perpetrators of rape in Sweden. However, the court decided that facts were irrelevant:

"The Court [Tingsrätten] notes that the question of whether or not Michael Hess's pronouncement is true, or appeared to be true to Michael Hess, has no bearing on the case. Michael Hess's statement must be judged based on its timing and context. ... At the time of the offense, Michael Hess referred neither to established research nor to Islamic sources. It was only in connection with his indictment that Michael Hess tried to find support in research and religious writings. The Court therefore notes that Michael Hess's pronouncement was obviously not a part of any reasoned [saklig] or trustworthy [vederhäftig] discussion. Michael Hess's pronouncement must therefore be viewed as an expression of disdain for immigrants with an Islamic faith."

Statistical evidence

What may one conclude from the available statistics?

As part of the evidence Michael Hess presented in court, he made use of whatever statistics existed on immigrant criminality in Sweden before the statistical authorities stopped measuring. Michael Hess tried to find answers to two questions:

Is there a correspondence between the incidence of rape and the number of people with a foreign background in Sweden?

Is there a correspondence between the incidence of rape and some specific group of immigrants in Sweden?

The answer to both questions was an unequivocal Yes. Twenty-one research reports from the 1960s until today are unanimous in their conclusions: Whether or not they measured by the number of convicted rapists or men suspected of rape, men of foreign extraction were represented far more than Swedes. And this greater representation of persons with a foreign background keeps increasing:

1960-1970s – 1.2 to 2.6 times as often as Swedes

1980s – 2.1 to 4.7 times as often as Swedes

1990s – 2.1 to 8.1 times as often as Swedes

2000s – 2.1 to 19.5 times as often as Swedes

Even when adjusted for variables such as age, sex, class and place of residence, the huge discrepancy between immigrants and Swedes remains.

Research reports on crime in Sweden have become a rarity, but among the eighteen that were done during the 1990s and the 2000s, eleven dealt with rape. Two of these reports dealt with the connection between rape and immigration, and they both confirmed that there is a link.

These figures are available to the authorities, the politicians and the press, yet they insist that these numbers do not mirror reality.

Glaring discrepancy

How is it, then, that in 2008, Sweden's neighbor Denmark only had 7.3 rapes per 100,000 inhabitants compared to 53.2 in Sweden?

Danish legislation is not very different from Sweden's, and there is no obvious reason why Danish women should be less inclined to report rape than their Swedish counterparts.

In 2011, 6,509 rapes were reported to the Swedish police -- but only 392 in Denmark. The population of Denmark is about half the size of Sweden's, so even adjusted for size, the discrepancy is significant.

In Sweden, the authorities do what they can to conceal the origin of the rapists. In Denmark, the state's official statistical office, Statistics Denmark, revealed that in 2010 more than half of convicted rapists had an immigrant background.

Foreigners overrepresented

Since 2000, there has only been one research report on immigrant crime. It was done in 2006 by Ann-Christine Hjelm from Karlstads University.

It emerged that in 2002, 85% of those sentenced to at least two years in prison for rape in Svea Hovrätt, a court of appeals, were foreign born or second-generation immigrants.

A 1996 report by the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention reached the conclusion that immigrants from North Africa (Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia) were 23 times as likely to commit rape as Swedish men. The figures for men from Iraq, Bulgaria and Romania were, respectively, 20, 18 and 18. Men from the rest of Africa were 16 times more prone to commit rape; and men from Iran, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia, 10 times as prone as Swedish men.

Gang rapes

A new trend reached Sweden with full force over the past few decades: gang rape -- virtually unknown before in Swedish criminal history. The number of gang rapes increased spectacularly between 1995 and 2006. Since then no studies of them have been undertaken.

One of the worst cases occurred in 2012, when a 30-year old woman was raped by eight men in a housing project for asylum seekers, in the small town of Mariannelund. The woman was an acquaintance of a man from Afghanistan who had lived in Sweden for a number of years. He invited her to go out with him. She obliged. The Afghan man took her to a refugee housing project and left her defenseless. During the night, she was raped repeatedly by the asylum seekers and when her "friend" returned, he raped her too. The following morning she managed to call the police. Sweden's public prosecutor has called the incident "the worst crime of rape in Swedish criminal history."

Seven of the men were sentenced to between 4.5 and 6.5 years in prison. Prison time is usually reduced by a third, so it won't be long before the men will be ready for new assaults -- presumably on infidel women.

In cases of gang rape, culprits and victims are most often young and in almost every case, the perpetrators are of immigrant background, mostly from Muslim countries. In an astounding number of cases, the Swedish courts have demonstrated sympathy for the rapists. Several times the courts have acquitted suspects who have claimed that the girl wanted sex with six, seven or eight men.

One striking incident occurred in 2013, in the Stockholm suburb of Tensta. A 15-year-old girl was locked up while six men of foreign extraction had sex with her. The lower court convicted the six men but the court of appeals acquitted them because no violence had occurred, and because the court determined that the girl "had not been in a defenseless position."

This month, all major Swedish media reported on a brutal gang rape on board the Finnish Ferry Amorella, running between Stockholm and Åbo in Finland. Big headlines told the readers that the perpetrators were Swedish:

"Several Swedish Men Suspected of Rape on the Finland Ferry" (Dagens Nyheter).

On closer inspection, it turned out that seven of the eight suspects were Somalis and one was Iraqi. None of them had Swedish citizenship, so they were not even Swedish in that sense. According to witnesses, the group of men had been scouring the ferry looking for sex. The police released four of them (but they are still suspects) whereas four (all Somalis) remain in custody.

The internet radio station Granskning Sverige called the mainstream newspapers Aftonbladet and Expressen to ask why they had described the perpetrators as "Swedish men" when they were actually Somalis. That is irrelevant, said the journalists. They were hugely offended when asked if they felt any responsibility to warn Swedish women to stay away from certain men. One journalist asked why that should be their responsibility.

"If the women knew, then perhaps they would have stayed away from these men and avoided being raped," said the reporter from Granskning Sverige. Whereupon the journalist slammed down the phone.

While Gatestone Institute stands by the articles written for it to date by Ingrid Carlqvist, Gatestone is no longer affiliated with her in any way.

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123 Reader Comments

Laura • Jun 16, 2018 at 18:01

What is going on in Sweden is a disgrace. You have politicians, newpapers, and judges bribed to destroy the swedish race by allowing all these rapists to get away with this scott free. Even in the US women are often raped and the men get away without any penalty because it is always the women's fault.. I would get guns and bullets and the crime sprees and rape would stop in Sweden. This is where the US got it right, allowing people to carry guns. Our forefathers were not stupid. Because none of the Europeans can bear arms, these male Muslims and your own govt allows you to be taken advantage of. If the police and your own men aren't protecting you, then you need to be armed for your own protection. Get tasers or some Mace and start using it. So glad to have seen Stockholm before all the muslim infestation of your country. Wouldn't want to visit with you now.

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Peter Müller • Apr 27, 2018 at 13:34

And I thought that only Germany faces this problem recently due to Mrs. Merkel's generosity. It also seems that in both countries the government is protected by mass media, withholding data on rape by refugees from public accessibility. Disgusting!

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Verbena • Feb 20, 2017 at 09:58

Men immigrating to Sweden should be forewarned that sexual molestation of women is a crime in Sweden and punishable by a jail sentence. I mean, really, how can they think that what they do is okay? It only takes a little effort to publlicize Sweden's views on rape.

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asad • Jan 18, 2016 at 17:57

its so awfully bad that the people who have decided to give you peaceful refuge you are conspiring against them...read what an angry immigrant said to rapist immigrants.....http://asadmahmudexposingislam.blogspot.ie/2016/01/rape-of-europe-and-islams-ultimate-goal.html

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Edward Moody • Dec 27, 2015 at 21:20

Why don't the Swedes vote different people into office ?

What did the authorities want a multicultural population for ?

Why does the general population accept this behavior ?

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Daniel Staggers • Nov 23, 2015 at 09:47

I'm sure Sweden will blame this on global warming. They blame everything else on it. That country is off the hook!

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Arne Boberg • Nov 10, 2015 at 09:13

"Swedish men cannot handle increased equality between the sexes and react with violence against women (perhaps the most fanciful excuse)." Excuse me?Having watched the creepy movie, "Turist" (Force Majeure), which is a good representation of the feminist progression in Swedish culture, I understand that women are getting what they want -- men to be simpering, quavering, subservient fools. Let women protect themselves against retaliatory rapists -- no one else will.

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SAResistance • Oct 21, 2015 at 17:12

I can see the demise of multi-culti Sweden (not looking good for the Whites there...), and the rest of Europe with the influx of country shoppers and welfare thief's. You claim that Lesoto is top of the rape list? Where do you get these stats from? South Africa is far worse.

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Berzrkr50 • Oct 19, 2015 at 10:55

The Swedes will be begging for help in the future. Don't look to America to rescue you from your blind stupidity! I'm sure gender won't be an issue for the rapist thugs you protect right now, so when the time comes, bend over and take it like a man!

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Dave • Sep 28, 2015 at 07:20

Since those who make the laws of the land ignore both common sense and human dignity, the time has come for the women of Sweden to arm themselves and shoot accordingly. It has become so increasingly apparent that the law of the land cannot protect the indigenous population so they must take it upon themselves to provide their own protection. A Swedish government in past times would have been deposed for such treasonous policies and it deserves nothing less. The police have become Keystone Cops led by Elmer Fudd and just as effective. Britain is fast devolving into a mirror copy hell hole.

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Max Dave • Oct 6, 2015 at 12:00

Apparently no one has firearms in Sweden anymore. Apparently, the age-old notion of protecting your family, your land, had been wiped out. In a region that once envied images of a fierce warrior, the replacement is a dog on its back submitting to a more willful, dominant individual.

In the past, immigrants raping the sisters of Sweden would have met with a mob of Swedes beating them silly, and possibly using that high quality Sanvik steel to remove immigrant desire.

For Sweden's sake, I hope they take control back from the hand wringing weaklings that report their news and run their country to ruin.

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Jim • Sep 24, 2015 at 07:20

That's the reason the rate in Sweden is so high. A lot more gets reported.

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elf • Sep 20, 2015 at 22:33

No violence had ocurred? Rape is violent. Additionally, false imprisonment, intimidation, threats, kidnapping and realted crimes are all violent as well.

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Gene Poole • Sep 17, 2015 at 06:23

Liberal socialists are not concerned about increases in rape, murder and assaults by immigrants. Their goal is diversity at all costs to suppress traditional European and American culture. What they have created is a throwback to the 5th Century Islamic Law.

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Phillip Aspinall • Sep 15, 2015 at 11:07

In March 2014 in England and Wales there were 5,682 males in jail for rape. The total percentage number of Muslim males over 16 in the UK is no higher than 3%. Yet out of that 5,782 12% were Muslim. (Freedom of information request). In the Rotherham and Bradford child rape scandals some 90% of the perpetrators were Muslim males. Draw your own conclusion. Yet anyone who dares to bring this up on mainstream media is branded a racist Islamophobe.

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Angela Dunavant • Sep 8, 2015 at 12:29

Journalists are doing women readers a great disservice! It is criminal IMO to withhold vital information from potential suspects.This also highlights that something is wrong with the Islamic faith if men think it is ok to rape women.The Swedish judges are adding and abetting the criminals when they give them almost no time behind bars.

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Yahul Wagoni • Sep 7, 2015 at 22:50

Sanctimonious, anti-Christian, ani-Semitic, politically correct blond beasts. They import their own destruction. I say, let'm have it! Still, I will mourn the passing of what once will have been a decent, high-productivity country filled with handsome people.

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Guillermo • Sep 4, 2015 at 13:56

Where are the Swedish men? Why havent they started "taking care" of this problem? Eliminate every savage and the politicians who enable them. Problem soved...

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Dave • Sep 3, 2015 at 15:56

This will not end until the populace makes itself heard. Either through electing a party completely dedicated to changing the status quo, or the people will have to take matters into their own hands through other more direct means. If the establishment cannot respect the rule of law, what little choice to the people have but committing themselves to unseating the establishment. At this point, communism looks better than ardent socialist cultural re-engineering. At least the communists would wipe out the Muslims or send them packing. I'd fight, I know that! What worth fighting for, if not your country and family?

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Rick Dave • Sep 13, 2015 at 11:09

100% agreed. I will fight too. Not sure why Europe is allowing this to go on.

Germany, France and Sweden, look after your women and daughters. In the Muslim community is is encouraged to rape Western women. You will see.

9/11...Never forgive and never forget.

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Shannon • Sep 2, 2015 at 14:19

It's time we realized that rape is a crime of the body and changes the victim permanently for life. The punishment should be similar.

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jennifer • Aug 17, 2015 at 07:23

It's time women took action. Time for them to parade bare-chested in front of mosques and other places where Muslim men spend time. Time to show them women full force. It's also time that women took their own action against men who are convicted and released. Stand with placards, label them, walk beside them, have a co-ordinated action group against the men who are convicted of rape.

Go to mosques and listen to the comments. Circle them if any of the preaching is anti-women. Label these men. The government is doing nothing for women in the name of political correctness. Take back the night, take back power. Bring these animals to their knees

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Max jennifer • Oct 6, 2015 at 12:09

Swedish women need to carry whatever weapons their tepid leaders have overlooked in banning. Sharp Swedish steel is known the world over. Let these women put that steel to use against their attackers

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Erdo • Aug 16, 2015 at 01:18

Hi. I guess the article makes valid points.

But let me say something else, which is related: I am from Turkey; and me and my close friends and relatives don't fit the stereotypical image that the Muslim types mentioned in the article represent. Most of us are not even religious. So, I just want to say that, it is sad that because of some bad-behaving and Islamist Muslims, many innocent and well-behaving people are seen in a bad way too; and because of such nasty people, we have difficulty even in getting tourist visas to most European countries.

Cheers.

Erdo

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JB Silver Erdo • Aug 18, 2015 at 06:53

Dear Erdo,

It is sad when innocent people get tarred with the same brush as the guilty; but NO-ONE was saying that ONLY Religious people from Moslem-dominated countries were raping non-Moslem women.

So your statement that you and your friends "are not even religious" is meaningless. And we are not talking about "some bad-behaving Islamist Muslims"; we are talking about enough that the rape rate in Sweden has jumped 1,480+ % !

We are talking about 1500 Christian girls raped and groomed against their will for sexual abuse by gangs of Muslim men.We are talking about a so-called 'Feminist' Muslim woman, a former member of the Kuwait parliament, who suggested BUYING non-Muslim women as sex slaves (she suggested from Chechens, since she reckoned they could easily get blond Russian women!), to be used as sex slaves in Kuwait, so Kuwaiti men would not do the 'illegal and immoral act of raping Muslim women'. But it would be all right to rape non-Muslim women !

In your country (Turkey), Alevis are persecuted. Yazidis are persecuted. Jews, NEVER BEFORE targeted in Muslim-controlled Turkey, whether in the Republic or in the Ottoman Empire, are beginning to feel unwelcome in a territory some of their ancestors lived in centuries before the Mongol Turks even arrived in area. And Christians, whether Armenian or Greek or Chaldean (Nestorian) are feeling threatened as well.

And all know how the Kurds are being treated. And how the Armenians were the victims of a Genocide whose 100th Anniversary we commemorated this year.

Please don't misunderstand.
I love Turkey, and have been there over 80 times, since 1995!
But your government is Islamist; though many of its people don't agree with its policies, which are causing problems in the Middle East, with us in Israel, with Egypt, with Syria (what's left of it),with the Kurds in Syria and Iraq, etc., and with Europe.

What Turks need to do in Turkey, is to force this evil obscurantist Islamist government out of power, and to embrace Western concepts of RESPECT for Women, Religious Minorities, people with different Sexual Orientations (the famous LGBT quartet). NOT mocking toleration, if that; Respect.And Respect for Women does NOT mean respecting only Muslim women. It means respecting even the wishes of a woman whose body is fully visible, if she says,"NO" to whatever is offered.

The problem is, ACROSS the Muslim World, with Islamist, Religious, Traditional and even Secular Muslims, there is serious DISRESPECT for those who are non-Muslim. And Muslims behave that way even in majority non-Muslim countries.

Look at Rotherham and Bradford, and Tower Hamlets, to name just 3 examples in the UK, where Muslims actively persecute 'Infidels'. Look at the situation in majority-Muslim 'ghettoes' in France, Germany, Sweden and Denmark, where non-Muslims are terrorised and terrified.

Never mind complaining about not getting visas; it is only because of the moral cowardice of Western European Christians that foreign-born Muslims and their children are not picked up wholesale and shipped back where they came from. Or penalised for behavior considered 'anti-social' and 'prosecutable' if a non-Muslim does it.

If I, an Israeli Jew, were to parade in London with a sign, "Death to Muslims" or "Death to Arabs", or declared publicly that Muslims and Arabs should be and would be destroyed, as numerous Arabs and Muslims have done to, and are doing to, Jews all over NON-MUSLIM Western Europe (For example: "Hamas! Hamas! Jews To The Gas!" Catchy slogan, no?!), I would be arrested in minutes and charged. And rightfully so.

So my friend, I'm sorry, if you are one of the few there who ARE among the 'good guys' and suffering for the misdeeds of your fellow Turks and fellow Muslims, but statistically you are in the tiny minority if so.

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antimuslim Erdo • Aug 19, 2015 at 08:07

Why? Because a person declaring him/herself a Muslim must abide laws written in Qur'an. This includes:

1. Ignore older writings of prophet Muhammad if new contradicting ones exist -- and last pages in Qur'an are ordering more radical and violent approach.

2. Islam is not a religion. It is a collection of religious, political, financial and household rules which must be followed by any Muslim. This includes the ultimate goal -- converting every person to Islam. At any cost.

3. Spread Islam through deception. Deception is allowed if spreading of Islam is involved. Saying "Islam is religion of peace" is true for the first chapters of Qur'an so it's not even lying and that's why we hear all the good things about Islam or a deceptive texts like "I'm not even religious".

If you can say "I'm not a Muslim" or "I'm murtadd/kafir" -- then we can talk honestly.

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kate JB Silver • Sep 13, 2015 at 13:51

I cannot agree more JB

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Rich D • Aug 3, 2015 at 16:11

She speaks of many such offenses in her newest book, Adios America.

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B Seidem Rich D • Aug 13, 2015 at 18:15

This is the way of Islam, and why so many attempt to escape Islamic countries. Please consider restricting immigration of any kind from these countries to protect your wives and children.

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Kevin McNamara • Jul 28, 2015 at 16:59

Liberals and Progressives have inundated us with myths concerning the benefits of multiculturalism. To all who have promoted this fantasy, perhaps you now realize you are useful idiots and have dumbed down your country. USA is busy following this approach.

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Aborig Zealand • Jul 15, 2015 at 21:10

How many aboriginal people in new Sweden still exist? The Vikings did much much worse. I wonder how you say "karma" in Swedish?

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Meme Aborig Zealand • Dec 13, 2015 at 18:54

You comment is irresponsible. First of all, Swedish Vikings are/were non-existent. The Vikings were Danish or Norwegian. Next, they did not rape at this extent because they didn't have the opportunities for one thing. But most of all, it has been proven that most Vikings were actually looking for new land to expand into as settlers and had to get along with people who they were only slightly different from. They were Christianized by the 10th century. That was a long time ago, and all of the former Viking nations have more than make up for that with huge contributions to humanity in science and medical, philanthropy. And Finland was never a Viking land, yet they have as many as 10,000 rapes a year, 99% by immigrants.

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Esteban • Jul 15, 2015 at 12:50

I feel awful for Swedish women. Such a wealthy country yet so morally bankrupt. Where is feminism? Feminism is nowhere to be found for the same reason that feminists aren't found fighting for the women of war torn Africa. They need Jesus. Jesus commanded men to love and respect their wives as God loves the entire humanity. Christians are the only ones answering the call for help world wide. Only true love and God can fix Sweden.

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slim molare • Jul 13, 2015 at 00:41

This is what you get from political class being comprised of disillusioned weak-willed individuals secretly frustrated with their sociocultural legacies. How else would you describe Sweden's Islamic apologetic rhetoric being thrown around in the political class? It makes you wonder if these self-loathing people are trying to punch the racial suicide button for the rest of the Swedish populace or what?

Broadly classifying Somali/Iraqi rapists as Swedes is one way to go. Why would you want to go ahead and spoil a beautiful thing? Sweden, beautiful people, rich history, great culture...all that? Out of the window, once you started admitting immigrants who saw your country as a place to be overridden while you're all pummeled into submission. Well, here's to hoping the government wakes up fast enough to realize the error of its ways with strong policies immigration and migrant integration that does not aid indigent denigration like we are already seeing.

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Digby • Jul 5, 2015 at 03:45

Swedish men may be unlikely to rape women, but it appears that Swedish media and Swedish courts are only all too willing to violate the civil rights of rape victims. What is wrong with the men (and women?) who write the news stories and preside in the courts? They are in the unique position of being able to stop this violent crime wave, and they totally abdicate their responsibility.

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Josephine Bacon Digby • Jul 15, 2015 at 02:55

Between visiting Sweden over 50 years ago and visiting recently, there is a huge difference not only in the extremes of rape but in the whole safety of women alone. When I first went, Sweden was one of the few countries in Europe where a woman felt safe to walk alone at night. When I returned, several years later, it was as bad as Italy, Turkey and other countries in which women are perceived as chattels. The mother of a friend of mine was a probation officer in Malmö. Most of her clients were Palestinian Arabs who, I notice, are not mentioned in this article. Rape is bad enough but the crime rate in Sweden has rocketed since it let in the refugees. The reason for this is simple: the sort of people who manage to escape murderous regimes are male, single and often with criminal backgrounds, almost everyone else does not have the wherewithal or resources to get to freedom. Hence the huge extent of criminality among such immigrants.

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Nellie Digby • Aug 21, 2015 at 09:38

I have been reading about this topic today and am disgusted. I am a young American woman who happens to look very Swedish although I have Polish and Russian heritage. I am shocked and appalled to discover the lies and protection that the Swedish and British government offers to cover up these violent crimes. Justice and protection should be shown no matter what the race is these committing these rapes against girls as young as 11! Why aren't Swedes taking a stand to protect their women and children and country...What is wrong with these people? It seems like they want their country to be taken over...

I live in America so I cannot speak from the viewpoints of Swedish and English women and children who are suffering but if I was there and realized no one was going to protect me I would arm myself with a gun/knife/protection needed to defend myself and family.

It is unbelievable what is occurring in Europe with immigration and the coverup taking place and lack of media coverage. It's time for the people to rise up against the attacks and fight back, Stop being such weak pacifists!

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Marianne Digby • Feb 21, 2017 at 14:17

I am borne a Swede but not living in Sweden. I am nearly speechless thinking of how cowardly they are not to stand for decency and TRUTH. They
deny what they must know is happening by the young teenager imported monsters and thugs and they gladly deny reality, they care nothing about those who don't have "titles" by their name, they don't "give a damn" that MY country is being sullied and shamed. SHAME ON YOU

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Joe Sharpton • Jul 2, 2015 at 01:47

Donald Trump must have read this before speaking about the impact of illegal Mexicans in North America. It seems that the immigrants are supported in spirit by the Democratic Party who favors their votes whether valid or not!

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gaiyh/tanny • Jun 24, 2015 at 19:47

Soon, it will get so bad they won't bother reporting it.

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Bill (USA) • Jun 20, 2015 at 09:17

Seems like the politicians are fostering the same problem with illegal/legal immigration in the USA. Wake up quickly or we're finished also.

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Rob • Jun 17, 2015 at 18:06

As a Swede this is nothing new of course, but the article explains spot on how our modern, disgusting, mentally ill Swedish society works. It is a completely sick country and any Swede with some dignity and self-respect is of course deeply ashamed of what the nation has turned into. Most of the Swedish politicians, most of the media, and all the people supporting this insanity should be held accountable. I despise them more than the loads of criminals they bring over the Swedish borders.

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David Woolmer • Jun 4, 2015 at 10:48

There is absolutely no doubt that the vast majority of Muslims are completely exonerated in discussing this subject. However, there are now an increasing number from countries like Pakistan, Somalia, Holland, Belgium and France which contain Islamists who generally follow Muhammad's worst characteristics since he is considered to be the perfect man.

In Islam's holy book, the Qur'an, there are a number of verses like Q4 v24 and, particularly, Q33 v50 the dispensation to take sex slaves "Prophet, we have made lawful for you the wives...and the slave girls whom Allah has given you in booty."

"Slavery (including taking sex slaves, is part of Islam and jihad as long as there is Islam.Those who argue that slavery has been abolished are ignorant. Whosoever says such things is an infidel" Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan, Member of the Senior Council of Clerics, Saudi Arabia's highest religious body.

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Richard Velasco David Woolmer • Jun 16, 2015 at 00:49

These barbarians are stuck in the Middle Ages. They treat women as property. Life is cheap to them. They have no regard for human rights.

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Terry J David Woolmer • Sep 25, 2015 at 19:23

In the 1970's, many European countries were liberated and the family structure began to unravel. Birth rates dropped, and now you find that your countries cannot sustain their own populations because the birthrate has dropped below the magic number of 2.1.

The Left gave you multi-culturalism, which is another term for partial genocide inside your own countries, replacing them with foreigners who do not share your cultural values. I've watched it happen since the early 1970's. Very sad. Very sad.

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Shariq Ali • Jun 3, 2015 at 09:28

It is extremely important to address this issue and deal with it correctly. As a Muslim firstly I would distinguish between religious teachings, their implementation and the collective that adheres to them or claims to do so.

In any case, there is a problem and it needs to be resolved. The best way in my opinion would be to work with the local communities and implement clear degradation on such individuals. A crime is a crime, and Swedish law needs to be followed in this case. Also, there needs to be lessons about local attitudes, for example these people might not be used to the local dress code in Sweden and also the local sexual freedom and may ignore the difference between nudity and consent.

In any case, there needs to be education and openness from all sides. The government and councils need to get involved and the institutes, mosque committees and police as well.

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Keith H. Shariq Ali • Nov 20, 2015 at 12:09

Not buying the childish excuse these main men think how a women dresses is consent to sex. They choose to go to different cultures and therefore are held responsible for their actions in that country's laws. If Muslims really think that if a woman is not covered up they can rape them shows the world Muslims cannot adapt to modern real world life. I think the world really needs to enforce modern reality to Muslim countries because their 8th century beliefs are not working well outside any country that isn't Muslim culture.

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robertsgt40 • May 20, 2015 at 15:43

Shipping Somalis into a target-rich environment of blondes is a no-brainer. What could possibly go wrong? Now we know. Immigration has been used for decades to pollute, dilute and subvert the dominant culture.

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Thomas Paine robertsgt40 • Jun 25, 2015 at 13:40

Unlike the Nazis, who were masters at extermination, the ultra liberal governments of Europe have decided to ethnically cleanse their population of native born citizens slowly with their liberal immigration policies, and by closing a blind eye to the crime, and societal burden African and Arabs exert on a country where they have absolutely nothing in common with the host country. And sadly, their citizens meekly march, lock step into the cultural 'gas chambers' willingly. Cultural suicide is taking place all over Europe and the US and the outcome will not be pretty. Sadly, it is too late.....

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Grendelsbane • May 18, 2015 at 16:09

Some corrections:

"The internet radio station Granskning Sverige called the mainstream newspapers Aftonposten and Expressen" --- "Aftonposten" has been the name of several tabloids during the last 170 years -- but the last one went to The Happy Hunting Grounds around 1956 -- when the trade unions bought *Aftonbladet*, known to have been pro-Germany during the 40's -- and made it to an orifice for the Social Democrats and the workers' trade unions.

Aftenposten is a paper issued in Norway, founded in 1860 and at present the third biggest paper in Norway.

Expressen has some time ago incorporated the tabloids Kvällsposten (KvP) -- Malmö -- and GöteborgsTidningen (GT) and use them as local versions of Expressen.

The morning paper GöteborgsPosten (GP) had some time ago a breaking news story about a man who entered a local train with two huge dogs, smoked marijuana, undressed and ran around among the terrified commuters, trying to coerce women to give him oral sex and shouting "I am a Somali warrior". GP published the story on the web, but soon censored it and deleted his declarations.

A paper in Norway published it as "a Swede", and had color pictures -- blurred, but you could still see that the naked body was rather dark brown.

If I understand the present debate right, by now a foreigner counts as "a Swede" as soon as his feet touches Swedish soil. The crypto-Communist mantra is that "you cannot categorize people," approximately translated.

Some journalists rebel against the censorship by writing like "the men are Swedish citizens" when a crime is exposed. Everybody understands.

Same thing if the members in a gang are brothers, cousins or father / uncle and sons.

Killing a woman with 57 stab wounds also gives a hint that this probably is a honor killing -- the woman had divorced the man or similar.

A thing that is hushed down is the phenomena of "balcony girls" -- a number of immigrant girls have fallen or jumped from balconies throughout the last years -- or have committed suicide by hanging in a small apartment crowded with relatives and clan kin. Of course, crime cannot be proved...

I am at present living as a neighbor to a shelter for battered women. About 95 percent are MENA women, some looking like frail teenagers in spite of two or three children. And they never go outdoors, or allow the kids to play outdoors. The Swedish justice system is primarily dedicated to protect the perpetrators, not the victims. That is PK and earns you a job in the bogus trade of politics.

Tip: https://affes.wordpress.com/category/kriminalstatistik-sverige/

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Josephine Bacon • May 18, 2015 at 05:54

I witnessed the abrupt change for myself. When I first visited Sweden in the early 1970s, Stockholm was one of the safest cities in Europe for a woman to walk around alone at night. Only a few years later, I was pestered in the street and not by blonde, blue-eyed Swedes but by obviously recent immigrants. I had a friend whose mother was a probation officer in Malmö and virtually all her "clients" were recent immigrants from the third world. It is a disaster for Sweden.

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Dylan • May 18, 2015 at 05:04

Appalling that the law is failing women in their own country. In Australia once a RAPIST is charged/convicted and jailed, they are then deported. So should be the case in Sweden. Perpetrators of crime ARE not victims, and should not be treated as such. All men KNOW rape is a crime (it's 2015 everyone knows what rape is) its no secret and there is no defense to it.

I also DOUBT very much any young girl would agree to have sex with 8 men???? The victims are the women/young girls who are being violated/ destroyed, and their lives ruined. The people working in the legal system need to wake up and apply the law/punishment as required, not to create loopholes to let criminals off, FOR GOD'S SAKE!

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bpsitrep • May 1, 2015 at 18:12

After reading this article, it is pretty clear that the 'Swedish' male is nothing more than a stuffed Teddy Bear. Allowing the women of your nation to raped over and over again, then making lame excuses for these rapes. Bunch of fracking cowards. Blond, brown haired blue eyed Swede will disappear from the Earth in next 80 years. Sweden is going to become Swedistan. At least the Finns are strong, maybe half the Norwegians. You see what being nice, politically correct, and 'socialism' gets you! Dead, gone, RAPED!

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ernie banner • May 1, 2015 at 15:38

Why are these non citizen criminals allowed to run loose. Any non citizen committing these type crimes should be immediately incarceratedand deported.

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Nine of seven ernie banner • May 9, 2015 at 10:27

Media and authorities in Sweden have a clear agenda to hide the fact that immigrants account for a large proportion of rapes.

If they would go out and present statistics in the media that put the spotlight on this problem, there would be an uprising among voters andpublic opinion would swing against their agenda of mass migration.

This is what the Swedish authorities and media want to counteract in every way!

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Mengykun • Mar 19, 2015 at 20:30

Opening up a country to multiculturalism is one thing.

Unrestricted immigration, without performing ANY background checks whatsoever is practically a death sentence. How do you know the people you're inviting in are not radicals, murderers, rapists or child molesters? You don't. Their country of origin are probably only to happy to facilitate their expulsion and make it someone else's problem (in this case, Sweden).

Sweden is committing cultural and ethnic suicide.

If you want immigration, at least take in honest, hardworking and law abiding people from Far East Asian countries like Japan (after a through background check, of course). If nothing else, they can contribute to a strong work ethic.

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Big Bear • Feb 27, 2015 at 13:13

These crimes will continue to get worse as long as the multiculturists reign. Eventually, the hate they engender will be visited upon them, and they will be assigned the ash-heap of history, like so many other cult fanatics before them.

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mrrabbit Big Bear • May 26, 2015 at 22:20

Hard to believe these Swedes were once Vikings. And the Brits are no better. You can't even defend your own women. You deserve this. Why do you think this kind of behavior by Muslims does not happen in Israel?

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JB Silver mrrabbit • Jun 21, 2015 at 09:04

The writer who wrote, "Why do you think this doesn't happen in Israel?" (rape of non-Muslim women by Muslim men), is sadly misinformed.

We also have this happening in Israel, but thankfully at much lower numbers, since we do profile, and we do punish rapists.

But our Left-Liberal morons are trying to push a similar agenda to that of L.L.M.s in Sweden and the UK -- "you can't condemn them since their culture (sic) is different".

Thankfully, most Israelis realise that this is BS; especially since we had a similar problem in the late 1940s/early 1950s, when the mass immigration of Jews from Asian and North African countries took place.

There were a rash of rapes by North African/Asian Jewish men against Jewish women. The Cabinet suggested that women be forced to live under curfew, since most rapes took place after dark. Golda Meir, then a minister in the Labour government said, "Women don't commit the rapes. Force the men to live under curfew!"

They decided to have the courts throw the book at rapists. After 20 or so were sentenced to 30-50 years without even possibility of parole till 60% of their sentence had been fulfilled, and with really good chance of being themselves raped in prison, rape dropped off to almost nothing.

It has stayed low, but because there has started to be a sign of 'cultural understanding' for Muslim 'foibles' respecting women's right to not be raped, rape by Eritrean and local Muslims is on the rise.

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Dominae. JB Silver • Aug 17, 2015 at 01:52

Kudos to Israel on their no-nonsense jailing of those animals who raped Israeli women. There were a few horrendous rapes of elderly women near the bus station in Tel Aviv by African illegals that were swiftly dealt with several years ago. Rarely is there anything ever written of this nightmarish behaviour today, well done Israel, maybe Sweden could learn from you. As an aside, what's wrong with Swedish men who do little to protect their women from such barbaric behaviour? Is deportation of such criminals not allowed under Swedish law?

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J Des • Feb 25, 2015 at 15:18

Your article on escalating rape crime by foreign born criminals was lucid and evocative. It is disgusting and demoralizing . What is being shared in the media about the political system which allows this travesty? How do they (politicians/bureaucrats) benefit from allowing such brutality and sickness to go minimally acknowledged or punished? What is the payback to them and do their families ever suffer the consequences of their political manipulations? Thanks for your truthful journalism.

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Balakrishnan • Feb 22, 2015 at 12:57

I feel that something is wrong with the western countries who opt for multicultural society where uncivilised people settling freely from barbaric countries and doing barbaric acts against the people who gave shelter to them. It seems these western countries fed up with their civilised life and like to change. God alone can save these western countries.

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Boocat Balakrishnan • Jun 29, 2015 at 16:31

The women of Sweden have been abandoned. They must protect themselves. I suggest they travel in armed bands with bats and dogs. You must save yourselves. You are governed by lunatics who have thrown you to barbarians.

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Mike in USA • Feb 21, 2015 at 16:06

These are the fruits of the political correctness and until the Western world learns to throw this idiotic value system out of being overly tolerant to the point where they are blatantly ignoring the cold hard facts, these crimes will only increase in volume and in violence. The Swedes like most of Europe and America are setting themselves up for destruction under the hand of Islam and if the people of Sweden, Europe and America were truly as educated as they think they are and knew their world history about the Islamic invaders of the past 2000 plus years, they would not have been so stupid as to invite the enemy into their camps with open arms. Life is tough and it is even tougher for stupid people so maybe it is time to wise up and throw away PC and the liberal fools who sold us all a rotten bill of goods!

Their culture teaches them that women are possessions and as such can be forced to do their subordinate "wifely" duty. Western women dress with more of a sexual appeal than Muslim women do and as such tempt those who read the words of their so called book to do as they please with them. By and large, Western women tend to be more promiscuous than Middle Eastern women and as such, it would not be a stretch to see how one of their faith could justify doing this to the filthy infidel. Infidels are seen as subjects of those of their faith and as such, since the Western women are more likely to refute a religion that oppresses them then this could possibly be punishment extracted upon them by a follower of Islam.

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barbaro70 • Feb 19, 2015 at 21:14

Has there ever been, in the modern history of man, any similar phenomenon where politicians and so-called journalists lie, contort, contrive, fabricate, create nonsense, in order to protect a certain class of people, whether a political, a racial, a religious, or any class? What am I missing? How can these hypocrites possibly justify what they are doing? Why are they not being stopped? How is this tragedy allowed to continue, especially in view of the tragedies that the permissiveness is producing? I am begging for a rational explanation that justifies the behavior of the politicians and the so-called journalists.

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V R Peterson • Feb 19, 2015 at 12:44

Why aren't Swedish men protecting their women ? Why isn't this epidemic of immigrant rapes reported in the national and international news ? I have not even heard of any preacher standing against this plague and it's been ongoing since 1995. Shouldn't girls at least be warned not to go into a taxi in countries like England where there is an epidemic of immigrant taxi rapes ?

Why do these countries protect the immigrant criminals and pay them welfare ? Do the countries understand only one Swedish woman Cecelia Malmstrom, is responsible for immigrant quotas to every country in the EU ? She is a non elected official and has openly laughed at the rape crisis, increasing the quota for immigrants to Sweden each year she has been in office.

Why don't the police do their jobs? Too sissified? Why do the judges let these criminals off the hook over and over. Has some sort of moral blindness fallen over the minds of those in the EU? Or do they just want to destroy Western Europe as it now is and turn it into some groveling third world country where women are treated like beasts?

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Mr Reality • Feb 18, 2015 at 23:45

It seems that the next logical steps for Sweden is for rape to be made legal and obligatory for all women.How can they welcome poor frustrated immigrants more than by ensuring that all Swedish women are available to be raped without consequences?

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Giol • Feb 18, 2015 at 15:41

There's been some outrage in the Jewish blogosphere about a (female) Swedish radio journalist interviewing the Israeli ambassador and suggesting that the Jews in Europe are responsible for the state of siege they find themselves in. The obvious retort would be: "Absolutely, and women are responsible for being raped too, right?" Well, this article indicates that at least the Swedes are not necessarily hypocritical antisemites; it's not just the Jews they're willing to throw under the bus, they're willing to sacrifice their own women as well.

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Gertrude Singer • Feb 18, 2015 at 14:43

I am so surprised that the politicians are so ignorant or just try to avoid any problems with the immigrants, as seen in other European countries. That is outrageous behavior. I was always fond of Sweden as being an interesting and educated country. Now I have to change my mind and am sorry for the women being treated so badly.
What can be done? Starting a petition to change the law to prevent such court rulings? How can I help?

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Mary Houghton Gertrude Singer • Sep 20, 2015 at 16:19

Women who have been raped by non-Swedes should think of suing the government for not protecting them, as they are concealing the nationalities of the rapists, they are therefore putting women collectively at risk.

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Virginia Lange Mary Houghton • Sep 25, 2015 at 01:49

I agree, the women should sue their government for covering up the identities of the rapists and for not prosecuting them. Jail for 20 years each would be appropriate. Castration would be better. Muslims mutilate their women so why not castrate the Muslim offenders?

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Marx Gertrude Singer • Sep 25, 2015 at 18:07

Sweden is just about the most feminist country in the world. It has terrible "family court" laws, anti-male. So much divorce going on. Of course, initiated by far by the women. I would write to a "Christian" Swedish woman on a Christian group on Facebook who divorced her husband, depriving him of much contact with their son, likely without good reason. Women are not educated in that country. They are indoctrinated. Feminism, Marxism and Multiculturalism: All go hand-in-hand. It is immensely saddening what is happening, also in countries like United states and Western Europe.

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Meme Mary Houghton • Dec 13, 2015 at 18:44

How about the citizens of any or all Western countries suing their governments for not protecting them? Most of the Swedish feminists were leftists who went along with the immigration/multiculturalism change because they saw themselves liberated by it. Now, they see their own intolerance of their men in the immigrant men's intolerance of them. Maybe they ought to look at themselves?

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Michal • Feb 18, 2015 at 09:16

I says there's a bit of truth in each of those explanations, but there's another explanation that's the most important, that always portrays men as perpetrators and women as victims. Most rape complaints are false. I base my conclusions on the hundreds of preliminary investigations and verdicts I've reviewed in my 30 years as a journalist.

The news site Sydsvenskan recently featured a very interesting review of rape accusations in Lund this past year. Of 41 filed complaints, none led to prosecution.

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Geoffrey Britain • Feb 16, 2015 at 18:31

A society that won't protect its women and children (Rotherham, UK) has no future.

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concerned cynic • Feb 15, 2015 at 23:27

Ask how many convicted rapists are circumcised. In Scandinavia, almost all circumcised men are Muslims. I am confident that Jews do not rape, regardless of circ status.

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YJ Draiman • Feb 15, 2015 at 18:46

All Israeli politicians and leaders must understand, any and all internal conflict which leads to divisiveness weakens Israel. If they really care about Israel as well as its people and want Israel to survive in these difficult times, they must unify in a common cause and work together to enhance Israel's safety and security. They must learn how to overcome their differences, for the sake of Israel and its people. Any elected or appointed leader, politician or official that pursues divisiveness and continues to incite conflict does not belong in a position to govern or represent Israel and its people. The self-serving agendas of the individual or party, which does not promote unity must stop immediately. The future of Israel depends on it."Israel - United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which have got to destroy that unification upon which our existence hangs".YJ Draiman

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Tom Jensen • Feb 15, 2015 at 16:48

So what is the REAL reason for which the Swedish Prosecutor is trying to extradite Julian Assange? (alledgely for rape, but more likely to assuage then Sec. of State Hillary Clinton over her embarrassment caused by Wikileaks. Long Live Wikileaks)

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JB Silver Tom Jensen • Jun 22, 2015 at 05:52

Why any sympathy for Julian Assange? He's a traitor to the West.And he's White, so the Swedes will have NO MORAL DILEMMA sending him to prison or deporting him to the USA. It is all right to punish Whites of Christian or Jewish faith (or no faith); just not non-Whites and Muslims.

The fact that this blatant inequality means that not all are equal in egalitarian Sweden just shows how hypocritical they are.

Julian Assange, welcome to the Brave New World you'd like to institute all over the West. Enjoy.

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Rita Rosenfeld • Feb 15, 2015 at 16:09

How do Swedes imagine that this enablement of violent crimes against women in some mysterious manner makes Sweden a better place?By abandoning the plight of women who are being raped by men of immigrant origin reflecting in large part Islam's view of women in society, Sweden has helped to transform the country into a pale shadow of a civilized democracy.

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Elena Rita Rosenfeld • May 23, 2015 at 03:19

I met a Swedish couple in Israel in December 2014. They were in their late fifties, early sixties. We talked about the world situation and the rise of young Muslim jihadists all over Europe, and I mentioned that Sweden was now the rape capital of Europe. They denied this and said they knew nothing about such a thing. Denial, denial, denial. I guess since they aren't affected by it, it doesn't happen.

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Paul • Feb 15, 2015 at 13:48

If the Swedish government and their courts continue to stifle the facts, then Swedes will get what they deserve. Throw out your members of gov't who refuse to accept the problem as fact and refuse to protect REAL swedes.

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Marc • Feb 15, 2015 at 12:31

Deliberately importing medieval cultural/religious misogynists reaps this whirlwind of rapes. This is a one-off demonstration of the danger of political correctness which leads directly to the rapid rise of anti-Semitism in Europe. It's also a one-off demonstration of the lack of desire of medieval cultural/religious barbarians to assimilate the values of Western democracies, preferring to seek imposition of their supposed 7th Century theological law and world outlook on nations which began to abandon similar religious barbarism beginning hundreds of years ago.

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Norma • Feb 15, 2015 at 10:19

The Swedes have got to wake up and realise that Somalis are not Swedes- and Swedish women deserve to be protected from rapists.And the culprits have got to be named, shamed, and punished.

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Christine Norma • May 16, 2015 at 13:28

It's a pity that these women and their families don't try to fight back by getting together and suing (very heavily) whoever is responsible for covering up these facts. A few court cases naming individuals, such as judges and government officials, who have refused to act in a way that protects their citizens from harm, might make them think again. After all, they don't do their duty because they are afraid of these people. It's as if they don't want any repercussions on themselves or their families so they give free rein to the rapists. (Oh, please don't hurt me - take the young girls instead.) As men, they should be ashamed of themselves.

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Bart Benschop • Feb 15, 2015 at 08:32

Dear Sir,

The difference between the number of rapes per 100.000 in Sweden is almost identical with the figure for Australia.In Australia that is not just because of immigration. There is a long and vile history of institutional rape from the convict era till now.Rape of Aboriginals and in jail are also very common.

Kind regards,

Bart Benschop

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Eric Bart Benschop • Feb 25, 2015 at 22:47

What if all the Swedish women left for another country just to feel safe?
Let the lawmakers and journalists think about their wives moving away, then it might start to sink in.

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jimonthebeach • Feb 15, 2015 at 01:36

The Europeans are just now starting to realize the dangers of unlimited immigration policies and multiculturalism. It is a lesson learned too late in many cases. Those countries who have been to slow to react will soon find their governments dominated by a Muslim majority and their constitutions replaced by Sharia.

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A.Franklin • Feb 14, 2015 at 22:40

Sweden's terminal social experiment

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Dan Simon • Feb 14, 2015 at 22:31

One wonders whether Britain might challenge Sweden's grim statistical lead once the Rotherham scandal and comparable revelations elsewhere around the country are incorporated into the statistics...

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Jeff • Feb 14, 2015 at 20:45

It is long past the time to allow a culture of "politcal correctness" in Sweden to blur the facts that Sweden's policy of open immigration is ruining the country. The vast majority of the rapists are immigrants or second-generation Swedes. In other words, the second generation Swedes from the Middle East/Africa, and the new immigrants, are committing the rapes. These immigrants have no desire to assimilate themselves into Swedish culture. The immigrant attitude toward women is to treat them as property; equality or respect toward women is non-existent.

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James • Feb 14, 2015 at 19:04

Articles like this are very important in combating the smoke screens and fog produced by Islam apologists. No post modernist theory with its moral cowardice of relativism can ever combat the potency of the fact of a rape surge.

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Kenny the K • Feb 14, 2015 at 17:03

If there are any Jews left in Sweden I would highly recommend they get out while they can; I'm sure they can be resettled in Israel. As I'm writing this I'm listening to an account of a terrorist attack in Denmark where an artist was attacked by Islamic terrorists because he made a drawing of Mohammad with a dogs head. Note that I called him "Mohammad" and not "The Prophet Mohammad". Respect has to be earned, not demanded.

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bernard ross • Feb 14, 2015 at 12:35

Sweden has been lying for years about the Muslims and Jews in Israel, hoping to force the Jews to live as dhimmis under the Muslims. Now Sweden is forced to experience the hell which they tried to force on others through libels and lies. I'll bet that is a connection the swedes wont notice.

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Pyara Chauhan • Feb 14, 2015 at 12:14

The Swedish authorities would appear to be complicit in protecting all these criminals in their midst. What about the population at large? The people of Sweden need to hold the feet of the authorities to the fire. This article is a well balanced attempt to reveal the truth. More power to the authors.

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L. Andrews Pyara Chauhan • Feb 21, 2015 at 14:12

Swedes are among the best educated and wealthiest people in the world with access to the Internet and could circumvent their strongly leftist media and government, but they do not. Who keeps electing these leftist ideologues to government after all, and reading their media propaganda uncritically? Swedes are so open minded that their brains have fallen out. A nation with Viking blood has been tamed by decades of socialism into self-abnegating victims who worship primitives, a suicidal multi-Cult.

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AmericanMom • Feb 14, 2015 at 12:13

What is not shocking is who is likely to rape. If you have been to any of these countries (say Morocco, like I have) you are looked at in a disgusting sexual manner by their men and feel unsafe. What is shocking is that the courts in Sweden (and media) permit a fifteen year old to be gang raped and let the rapists go free!! What?? No trips to Sweden for me and my daughter.

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al • Feb 14, 2015 at 11:06

The Swedes have become dhimmis in their own country. Political correctness has led the Swedes to commit suicide, rather than face up to a serious threat to their society.

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DevilDocNowCiv al • May 1, 2015 at 21:02

Yes, just as the American Sci Fi author Robert Heinlein called the period from the '60's onward the Crazy Times, we see the craziness, but we've had the time to have people study what's going on and point out PC Multi-Culti reality and the problems that are directly connected to it.

As it applies to Islam, we see clearly that bad outcomes have quickly developed. Along with rape, we will see politicians adopt Islamic dress -- and as much as possible, policies -- to appeal to a large constituent block now in the district they represent. This will proceed while intellectual leaders of Sweden continue blindly to import and accommodate Muslims, and hide problems.

At least, as Sweden sacrifices itself like this, it provides us (as we continue on a similar path) with a blazingly clear example of how a transition can happen -- first, to a clearly "Islamifying" state, and then to a dramatically violent version of Sweden. As the heretofore disinterested minority of "original" Swedes reacts to the violence and other new cultural aspects that are unwanted.

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Andrew H • Feb 14, 2015 at 10:34

The interesting thing is that Norway and Finland, neighbors of Sweden in a sense and to some degree culturally related, are light years removed in their cultural development. Years ago I read a delightful book titled OUT-ISLAND DOCTOR by an American who took a job in the Bahamas in 1940 sailing between their many islands to look after the medical needs of villagers and fishing settlements. His patients were all of the same background, former African slaves, but he found a great diversity between the communities which because of a lack of roads on the islands were relatively isolated, reached only by sea. He found some of the settlements to represent ideal communities, healthy, productive, civilized and happy. Ten miles down the shore there might be another community in which settlers were mostly ill, lawless, unproductive and generally despicable. He studied them closely and finally arrived at an answer. The general health of the community depended on leadership. Whenever a "dominant male," so to speak, had integrity and intelligence, the entire community benefited. When there was no leadership or the leader was generally rotten, the community went down the drain. Sweden, obviously is going down the drain because of a negative leadership which is what is always found on the Left.

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judithg • Feb 14, 2015 at 10:07

Given there is so much bad news in the world, this cheerful bit of comic relief is really welcome. And, it couldn't happen to a nicer country. Keep going there, Swedes, and soon very soon you will attain the status of #1 in rapes along with, of course, your world title for crappy furniture.

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Clifford Hall • Feb 14, 2015 at 10:03

The quotation from the Swedish Court is entirely specious. If I make an assertion of fact, it may be based on (a) experience, or (b) scientific data, or both. The former may be more reliable than the latter and may also depend on perceptions of what is accounted or reported (as rape) in the country under consideration. Thus it would be interesting to see rape figures for Saudi Arabia (as UAE). In this man's case, it is not stated whether at the time he made his statements he was asked for corroboration. If not, why should he turn himself into a pedant? Considered judgement is not inevitably less 'considered' if expressed without reference to data.

Thus if I say - as I do - that there seem to be more inmates in British prisons from ethnic minorities than indigenous white British people, and that the majority of those are almost certainly Moslem, off-hand I can't give you figures though I have seen reports to this effect. Moreover my statement is based on experience, empirical evidence - on what I have SEEN at visiting times in various prisons. The statement is thus neither 'wild' nor 'unconsidered'- and so I cannot see how making the statement can possibly be considered irresponsible. If it is, then it follows that we should never indulge in quotable quotes or ever have views, and express them, about anything very much and certainly never as hearsay. But then, of course, even 'data' may be contrived. The books may have been cooked.

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JB Silver Clifford Hall • Jun 22, 2015 at 06:15

Dear Mr. Hall,

I fear you are missing the point. Everything you wrote is correct, if you are going to base it on 'facts'.But this judge does NOT want to base his court on 'facts', since they contradict his 'world view'. Don't try to confuse him with the facts.He knows what should be, and what is, interests him not at all.Sort of like Shimon Peres and his "New Middle East"...Best to you.

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Frances Weingarten • Feb 14, 2015 at 10:00

It would seem that Sweden, as several other European countries, has chosen to wear blinkers in the name of "political correctness". They will reap their reward when the country is under sharia law and all citizens are subject to it. It is astounding that the Swedes have allowed this to happen in their once democratic and caring country. To accept these rape statistics and refuse to acknowledge who are the perpetrators is the height of madness. But when political correctness takes over, madness is the result.

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Ruth • Feb 14, 2015 at 09:12

Sweden's immigration policy is destroying its heritage, its culture and its future. It is almost unbelievable that such an educated society would sacrifice the safety of its female population in this way. Whilst sex crimes exist everywhere, there is no pride in being the "rape capital of the west"!

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Donald Ruth • Feb 16, 2015 at 07:33

Swedish prosecutors ignore rapes committed by immigrants from countries, mostly Muslim, that denigrate and degrade women. Yet the Swedish prosecutors are determined in their relentless effort to prosecute Julian Assange. Hypocrites. Could it be that he knows too much?

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tforeman Ruth • May 14, 2015 at 21:45

The statistics shown in the bar chart are astounding. Have the Swedish men been so flat-lined by their communal quest to lead the world in egalitarianism that they have forgotten to protect women from these cruel predators? Have the men given up? The court decisions noted in the story are incomprehensible. These are people who love to lecture Americans -- arrogantly -- on how to behave.

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Ian Hill • Feb 14, 2015 at 09:03

The obvious link between numbers of rapes and Islamic immigrants is not the worst of the situation and only the tip of an iceberg of crime. A disproportionate number of same immigrants (Muslim) are clogging up prisons ALL over Europe.

Worse still is that ALL our leaders in ALL European countries are failing to acknowledge the problem and carry out their first duty - namely to protect us.

The lid on this boiling kettle will explode soon and the blame lays with our cowardly leaders.

These people will never be integrated in our communities -- their religion (political doctrine) expressly forbids it.

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Mike Briggs • Feb 14, 2015 at 07:54

Sweden, and indeed ...all of Western Europe is the 'canary in the coal mine!' for America. It is sad that we are so dumbed down by our government schools and the MSM ...otherwise known as 'The breeding ground for more radical Leftism' ... that we also are rapidly falling prey to the worst ideology to ever raise it's ugly head on humanity!

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joe coffee Mike Briggs • May 19, 2015 at 18:09

We can count on it here in the coming years...

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C. Barder • Feb 14, 2015 at 07:30

The whole of Europe should stand forewarned and forearmed but it may already be too late. Imagine what would happen if such got loose on Israeli Jews or even Israeli Arabs were that state to be overwhelmed by invaders. Shameful Swedish courts have abandoned justice and truth and instead substituted some relativist racist slant in favour of evil men. They no longer protect but foster. Shameful, disgraceful but not unpredictable.

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Fred • Feb 14, 2015 at 06:37

Poor, poor Swedistan. How quickly it is succumbing to the wishes of its "poor misunderstood migrant victims". They will learn to appreciate the value of the Swedish women as commodity as the "victimhood" migrants do.

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William Fred • Feb 14, 2015 at 15:37

Education is no proof of intelligence. One should also look at the rape statistics in Norway.
When will the western world stand up and take charge of their own borders, language and culture.I am surprised that intellectuals are so ignorant about survival in the real world. Live strong or perish.Swedish males seem to have lost their testosterone.

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JJ Cooper Fred • Feb 14, 2015 at 16:47

Sweden, as in France, will be losing their Jewish communities and becoming powerless to control their "New Swedes" I think they will find this a very bad bargain, indeed.

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George (USA) Fred • Feb 14, 2015 at 20:49

I read with utter horror at the suicide of a nation that has always intrigued me and held my respect. Isn't this land of the lemming (or is it Norway/Finland)? Sweden is rushing headlong towards and over the cliff with no sign of concern.

Words fail me.

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Gnarlodious Fred • Feb 14, 2015 at 23:32

This is the exact same strategy employed by Ghengis Khan to spread his warlord genes to the Arab nations, and now it is overrunning the formerly civilized nations.

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Russell Fred • Feb 15, 2015 at 05:07

Sweden has for decades been accelerating down the path of moral decay. Immigrants to a country should be made to integrate into the society they have entered not given leave to change it to suit their own culture and laws. Which probably didn't work well for them in the land they came from. Multiculturalism is a myth and cannot work. It simply weakens society by fragmenting it. This is evident all over the world. I fear Sweden is already too far gone and they are now getting the harvest they sowed years ago through their permissiveness and ungodliness. Women need to be protected and cherished and laws need to be enforced. The whole of Europe is failing to enforce their own laws through weak government and they are implementing laws that silence critics and protect the wicked rather than enforcing laws that protecting the people and the society.

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David Fred • Feb 15, 2015 at 11:56

What kind of education turns a whole country upside down? Sweden has long ago lost its moral compass in its search for liberation. Look objectively at what it has become. If it looks like a rape capital of the world by provable statistics and if it looks like a Jew hating Islam loving country, then that is what it is. There is no-longer any question except in the minds of the Swedish "educated?".

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Hazel Fred • Feb 16, 2015 at 06:52

Globalisation and its offshoot 'multiculturalism' are ideologies of benefit only to a specific establishment class -- politicians, journalists, corporations -- secure in their own wealth and distance from cultures grounded in barbarism and the arrogant entitlement Islamic belief inculcates in its adherents.

Either the people of Western countries currently colonised by those who are happy to mutilate small girls -- even baby girls -- to accommodate Islamic beliefs of "purity" will one day soon be overwhelmed and subjugated OR there will be horrendous civil uprisings and bloodshed. The history of Islam is one of subjugation and massacre in every civilization they have conquered; whether by violence or the present 'silent' out-breeding and territorial occupation.

Relativism is the great curse of 21st century Europe.

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Tom Smith Fred • Feb 17, 2015 at 12:08

Tolerance of intolerance is rank hypocrisy. There is nothing to be ashamed of in discriminating against the adherents of barbaric death cult dedicated to the destruction of civilisation. There is no merit is this phony PC that our leaders foist upon us in an effort not to offend the "guests" in our countries.

I am offended by the actions of the adherents of Islam. It is barbaric and deserves no place in Western society.

I am offended by our cowardly leaders who seek to sacrifice us to this beast as an offering to appease it, rather than by leading the necessary removal of it from the West.

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Muslimkush Gnarlodious • Jun 5, 2015 at 16:13

Lots of names among converted people in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Hindustan end with Khan. Obviously they are all descendants of Great Genghis Khan, the great debaucher, who roamed and romanced all over converted countries.

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Daveboy • Feb 14, 2015 at 06:12

It's a terrible indictment on a country's government and judiciary when it fails to protect its people from any criminal activity, but especially more so when it involves 'outsiders' who are so called refugees, or their offspring. Finally though, I guess that the people of a country deserve the government they elect! The Swedes still have the power to vote their government out of power if they don't like what is going on and, if I am not mistaken, they have just had an election? Denmark appears to be doing something about it.

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